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What a great album this is! The music's straight out epic doom the way it should be. I really like Johan Langquist's vocals on this album (theer's a quality of desperation to his singing that neither Messiah Marcolin nor Rob Lowe possesses).

Doom metal. No more. No less.

After listening to "Lucifer Rising" and the first song, "If I Ever Die", I thought Candlemass would put up a more aggressive and up tempo album. I was wrong. This is as doomy and gloomy as usual, with long, dark... and slow songs, yet very heavy. Another masterpiece...

One of the best doom metal albums of all time...

Perhaps neither as outstanding nor as good as "Tales of Creation", "Ancient Dreams" is still heavy, dark and doom-ladden, and Marcolin's vocals are as enthralling as ever (although they sounds really strange on the last track). A doom metal classic that belongs in any doomster's collection.

A doom metal classic, which belongs in any doomster's collection, "Tales of Creation" is very much a blueprint of melodic, melancholic, catchy yet dark and heavy doom metal. While the album as a whole is great, it's Marcolin's vocals that really tops it.

Nice! Doom Metal as it should be, with interesting songs, majestic riffs and awesome vocals.